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" In short so useful and profitable is this tree, next to the oak, that every prudent lord of a manor should employ one acre of ground with ash to every twenty acres of other land, since in as many years it would be worth more than the land itself... "
The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and ... - Page 194
1851
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A Report on the Trees and Shrubs Growing Naturally in the Forests ..., Volume 1

George Barrell Emerson - Plants - 1846 - 614 pages
...spring, and recovers its position; so as in peace and war it is a wood in highest request. In short, so useful and profitable is this tree, next to the...of other land, since in as many years it would be more worth than the land itself." There are three species of ash growing in Massachusetts, — the...
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All the Year Round, Volume 4; Volume 24

Charles Dickens - English literature - 1870 - 632 pages
...recovers its position ; so that in peace or war it is a wood in highest request. In short, so nseful and profitable is this tree (next to the oak), that every prudent lord of a manor should employ an acre of ground into ash or acorns, to every twenty acres of other land, since in as many years it...
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Under the Blue Sky

Charles Mackay - 1871 - 378 pages
...spring and recovers its position; so that in peace or war it is a wood in highest request. In short, so useful and profitable is this tree (next to the...oak), that every prudent lord of a manor should employ an acre of ground into ash or acorns to every twenty acres of other land, since in as many years it...
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Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Part 2

Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1896 - 480 pages
...spring and recovers its position; so as in peace and war it is a wood in highest request. In short so useful and profitable is this tree, next to the...years it would be worth more than the land itself."* The above quaint quotation seems most fully to illustrate the importance of tiie ash to the yeoman...
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The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America ...

Julia Ellen Rogers - Trees - 1905 - 816 pages
...and stocks for tools, spade trees, carts, ladders. ... In short so good and profitable is this tree that every prudent Lord of a Manor should employ one...of other land, since in as many years it would be more worth than the land itself." William Cobbett gives the ash a good character. He commends the keys...
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Indoors and Out: The Homebuilders' Magazine, Volumes 1-2

Architecture - 1905 - 494 pages
...in his " Sylva, or a Discourse on Forest Trees," speaks of the ash in 1664 as follows : " In short, so useful and profitable is this tree, next to the...oak, that every prudent lord of a manor should employ an acre of ground with ash to every twenty acres of other land, since in as many years it would be...
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Trees that Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the ...

Julia Ellen Rogers - Trees - 1909 - 336 pages
...ancient times. Every tool, vehicle, and implement of the farmer and mechanic were made of this wood. " Every prudent lord of a manor should employ one acre...ground with ash to every twenty acres of other land. In as many years it would be worth more than the land itself." The seeds of ash trees were used for...
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Trees that Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the ...

Julia Ellen Rogers - Trees - 1909 - 326 pages
...prudent lord of a manor should employ one acre of ground with ash to every twenty acres of other land. In as many years it would be worth more than the land itself." The seeds of ash trees were used for fattening pigs. They were also used as remedies for many diseases....
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Statement of Work Done by the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry During ...

Pennsylvania. Department of Forests and Waters - Forests and forestry - 1896 - 472 pages
...spring and recovers its position; so as in peace and war it is a wood in highest request. In short so useful and profitable is this tree, next to the...ash to every twenty acres of other land, since in as man v yf-aiv it would be worth more than the land itself."* The above quaint quotation seems most fully...
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